This is a long overdue blog post for my talk at Lift12. It’s about what games can do for society. As such it builds on what I talked about in 2011 at FutureEverything and at dConstruct. What I tried to do here is to be more articulate about why I think the public sphere is [...]
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‘The Social Contract Put at Play’ at Lift12
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Week 142
At the start of last week, I found myself working on a national holiday. A fate not unfamiliar to most business owners, I guess. That day, and the one following it, I was tweaking the Saba build we would be testing on Wednesday. Myself and Alper have gotten into a nice rhythm of remote collaboration. [...]
Week 138
Our two projects Saba and Kani have taken up almost all of our attention this week. A quick rundown of both follows. Saba is a game for the Utrecht University Museum. Families visiting the museum play using one iPhone while exploring its rooms. We are initially focusing on its cabinet of curiosities. The goal is [...]
Play some of our fave games at Tweetakt
I’ve blogged about Tweetakt before but now that construction of the festival pavilion is happening outside our studio windows I feel I should post a reminder. So this Friday, Tweetakt Festival opens. I’ve selected a number of games that will be playable for free at the pavilion for the full 10 days of the festival. [...]
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Week 143
The previous week was the last full work week before I take a break, which starts this Thursday. So we’re wrapping up running projects or at least getting them to stage where they can be safely put on hold. For Saba, this meant sitting down with Hanne, Karel and Alper remotely to MoSCoW the list [...]